Best Middle Schools in Michigan

The top 50 middle schools (grades 6-8) in Michigan, ranked by enrollment from NCES data with EDFacts proficiency rates where available. Average proficiency across this list is 65%.

#	School	City	Enrollment	Proficiency
1	Saline Middle School	Saline, MI	1,113	73%
2	Seneca Middle School	Macomb, MI	1,108	63%
3	West Middle School	Traverse City, MI	1,081	64%
4	Royal Oak Middle School	Royal Oak, MI	1,060	64%
5	Novi Middle School	Novi, MI	1,036	68%
6	Hillside Middle School	Northville, MI	1,022	65%
7	Novi Meadows School	Novi, MI	1,006	74%
8	West Bloomfield Middle School	W Bloomfield, MI	941	62%
9	Grand Blanc Middle School East	Grand Blanc, MI	866	62%
10	Maple Street Magnet School for the Arts	Kalamazoo, MI	860	43%
11	Baldwin Street Middle School	Hudsonville, MI	844	65%
12	Liberty Middle School	Canton, MI	844	63%
13	Grandville Middle School	Grandville, MI	830	61%
14	Pioneer Middle School	Plymouth, MI	828	65%
15	Boulan Park Middle School	Troy, MI	823	65%
16	Mattawan Middle School	Mattawan, MI	817	68%
17	Plymouth Scholars Charter Academy	Plymouth, MI	793	68%
18	Achieve Charter Academy	Canton, MI	779	63%
19	Mason Middle School	Mason, MI	776	65%
20	Lowell Middle School	Lowell, MI	771	65%
21	Hartland MS at Ore Creek	Hartland, MI	766	62%
22	Larson Middle School	Troy, MI	762	66%
23	Lakeshore Middle School	Grand Haven, MI	760	63%
24	Jenison Junior High School	Jenison, MI	752	64%
25	Highlander Way Middle School	Howell, MI	744	65%
26	Milwood Magnet School	Kalamazoo, MI	742	39%
27	East Rockford Middle School	Rockford, MI	740	73%
28	Portage Central Middle School	Portage, MI	740	65%
29	Beacon Tree Elementary School	Shelby Township, MI	725	70%
30	Clague Middle School	Ann Arbor, MI	718	62%
31	Andrew G Schmidt Middle School	Fenton, MI	717	64%
32	Anchor Bay Middle School North	New Baltimore, MI	705	68%
33	Robert L Nickels Intermediate School	Byron Center, MI	702	64%
34	Floyd Ebeling Elementary School	Macomb, MI	699	67%
35	DeWitt Middle School	Dewitt, MI	692	69%
36	Kraft Meadows Intermediate School	Caledonia, MI	683	62%
37	West Middle School	Plymouth, MI	675	62%
38	Norup International School	Oak Park, MI	674	67%
39	Grandville Grand View Elementary School	Wyoming, MI	654	66%
40	East Grand Rapids Middle School	Grand Rapids, MI	652	67%
41	St Clair Middle School	Saint Clair, MI	643	61%
42	Birmingham Covington School	Bloomfield Hills, MI	637	70%
43	Baker Middle School	Troy, MI	626	65%
44	Derby Middle School	Birmingham, MI	626	71%
45	Lakeshore Middle School	Stevensville, MI	611	65%
46	Ann Arbor STEAM at Northside School	Ann Arbor, MI	601	65%
47	Morgan Elementary School	Shelby Township, MI	594	64%
48	Carl T Renton Jr High School	New Boston, MI	591	63%
49	Fort Gratiot Middle School	Fort Gratiot, MI	584	63%
50	Brownell Middle School	Grosse Pointe Farms, MI	577	74%

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best middle school in Michigan?

The largest middle school in Michigan is Saline Middle School in Saline with 1,113 students and a 73% proficiency rate. Rankings are based on NCES Common Core of Data enrollment and EDFacts proficiency results.

How many middle schools are in Michigan?

This page shows the top 50 middle schools (grades 6-8) in Michigan by enrollment. Browse the full state directory to see all schools.

What does the proficiency rate measure?

Proficiency rate is the percentage of students meeting grade-level standards on combined math and reading assessments, as reported by EDFacts. Data is district-level and applied to each school in the district.

Where does this data come from?

Enrollment and school characteristics come from the NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency rates come from EDFacts assessment results. Both are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.

The this entity category groups every U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment entity sharing this attribute. The list above is the data; the paragraphs below explain what the grouping means against the broader NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts distribution and how to read the relative rankings within the category.

For readers using this category as a starting point, the per-entity detail pages linked from the table above carry the underlying NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts data in full. The category-level view is the filter; the per-entity pages are the actual answer.

Sources: NCES Common Core of Data, EDFacts

Last updated: June 2026

Schools are ranked by enrollment within the state. Proficiency rates come from EDFacts assessment results, district-level figures applied to each school in the district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.